Mary Beth wrote in and asked, “Do you have any Psychic Tools I can use to act like I can read minds? Any psychic trick’s would be welcome.”

This website wasn’t meant to teach these tricks, but I’ll give it a whirl. I’ll also teach you how to read lips at the same time because this was another question recently sent to me.

First a Party Trick

Would you like to be able to fool people into thinking you have a Psychic friend who is just a phone call away? This trick will work everytime as long as the psychic friend answers the phone? Tell the friend that when you call they should:

If they did neither of these, they could just read your lips. When someone is trying to think of a word they mouth out part, or all the word unconsciously. If you get them to sit up straight you can clearly see these slight mouth and throat movements.

If you don’t catch them mouthing out the name the first time, give them an embedded command by saying, “don’t …(pause)… say it out load.”

I’ll list every mouth and throat movement in a second. If you are having trouble, instead ask them to think of a single digit number that is important to them.

Think of a Number from 1 to 9

More than likely it will be 7 because a high percentage of people pick that number when they are asked this question. But, we are going to instead read their lip’s. Here is how:

1: The lips will round, like they are making a W sound

2: The tongue touches the back of the upper teeth and the roof of the mouth

3: The tongue appears between the teeth

4: Bottom lip touches the top teeth and they make a slight frown

5: Bottom lip touches the top teeth and they make a slight smile

6: Tongue lightly touches the roof of the mouth and they make a slight smile

7: Tongue lightly touches the roof of the mouth and they make a slight frown

8: The lower lip bends into a smile

9: You’ll clearly see the bottom of the tongue

Lip Reading

Below are the mouth movements used when speaking:

a: Tongue is pushed into the bottom of the mouth and eye browse raise

b: Both lips close and then reopen

c: Tongue is pushed into the bottom of the mouth and the eye browse don’t raise

d: Tongue touches behind upper teeth and then appears between teeth

e: Tongue pushes on the back of the bottom teeth

f: Bottom lip touches the top teeth

g: Tongue is arched in the mouth and lightly touches the back of lower teeth

h: Mouth moves as if person is exhaling

i: Tongue touches the top of the lower teeth

j: Tongue touches the roof of the mouth, teeth touch and then part

k: Tongue arches and presses into back of lower teeth

l: Tongue touches the bottom of the upper teeth

m: Lips pucker and then reopen

n: Tongue touches right behind upper teeth

o: Mouth makes an o shape

p: Lips pucker, mouth inflates and then an exhale

q: Tongue arches and mouth slowly starts to close but doesn’t

r: Mouth puckers but doesn’t close and then parts to form an upper case o

s: Tongue appears between the teeth as the jaw remains slack

t: Tongue touches behind the upper teeth and then falls to the bottom of the mouth

u: Similar to o, because they sound alike

v: Lower lip touches the upper teeth

w: Lips pucker but don’t close and then form an o shape

y: Face makes a slight snarl and eyebrows drop

That’s All Folk’s

I hope you had fun with this? If you have any other question’s leave them in the comment section below.

Sorry for repost, but do you have any suggestions for speed reading content to begin with? I understand to get it up to a good speed, you won’t catch the whole text in the beginning because of the shock of speed you need to practice at. I don’t necessarily want to read a book I won’t understand, so would it be worth speed reading random articles often? I guess you could also read an old book over.

I can speed read an average text book page in about 3 seconds. I’m pretty fast. The number 1 skill you have to develop is to fight the need to speak out the words as you read. We naturally do this as we read and it slows down our ability to speed read.

I learned to do this by tracing the words as I read. I progressively moved my finger faster and faster side to side. After a while I started ignoring all but the verbs and nouns. After you do that you’ll be able to read by moving your finger down the page.

It will take you a while to develop this skill, but I think it is worth the effort. I can now read a pretty dense technical book in about an hour. I then retain that information at a high level for a few days. The only issue I have is that I soon there after forget what I read. That may be because of how I process information, or it may be because I read a few books a day?

I’m sorry, but I can’t remember the books I learned this from. I picked them up decades ago when I was in high school. I used to do stuff like this and other magic tricks all of the time. A good book on simple magic tricks would cover things like this. I’m glad you liked it 🙂

This looks like a great book Speechreading: A Way To Improve Understanding. I learned from very old books and a ton of practice. It takes time to learn this technique. It is great fun to read lips though 🙂

To do this you have to learn to read lips. I learned from a video I rented from a library a long time ago. I believe it was called
Read My Lips from the notes I have. lipreading.org has some exercises on their site.

Hi Admin,
I believed what u said and tried and learned lot from the site, lipread.org and now I am good at it but the problem is how to guess the word when someone doesn’t even shows any lip movement.
For example, a mentalist like derren brown asks a person to think of a name, derren brown successfully tells what name he thought off , even though the person doesn’t makes any lip movement.
I seriously want to learn this art. I have practiced a lot from the site, lipread.org as you said and now can successfully read lips when there is lip movement, but how to perform acts, like mentalist do.
Please help me.
Thanks,
Smith

It takes a long time to master this stuff. People like Derren Brown aren’t going to teach their secrets. I think much of it is mastered through practicing. Learning how to put a person into trance will also help you. That way when they are in trance they will respond the the command “don’t …(pause)… say it out load.”

I would like to know a book that shows these skills too but the lip reading/speechreaing books are all good but there movements are so subtle when doing apparent mind reading, anyone else know another source of this, I would like to hear about the throught reading also, as lipe are all that is mentioned here but when you are thinking a letter like g or any of the letters where the tounge stays in the mouth and there mouth is slightly closed I want to know more in depth on what I’m looking for, I see Ormand was mentioned, who is this? I’ve never heard of them can they guide me in this or is there a book that directly deals with psychic lip/throat

I tried it many times with the technique,which you have suggested but it seems nearly impossible to catch the facial cues when someone is not speaking. Can you put up few videos regarding picking up facial cues when some one is not speaking in order to guess what other person is thinking (Like many mentalists do, in order to guess what the other person has thought off).
I will be highly grateful to you if you can put up explanatory video for this.